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Alan Waller
Sailed on the Atlantic, Baltic and Med. Taught navigation. ·
Author has 978 answers and 1.8M answer views · 9mo

Handling any kind of cotton textile product at sea is

continuous hard work.

Cotton fibres are splendidly edible for bacteria. Bacteria

love moisture. Anything used outdoors at sea can get
moist and is difficult to dry.

This means that as soon as you pull it out of the water or

let it get wet when it’s aloft, it starts to rot. You can
measure its lifetime in hours, wet hours. Amongst all the
other things you have to do, you have to dry it as soon as
you can, and never miss doing it.

English has a saying applied to getting paid too well for

something: that’s like getting money for old rope.

This is because old rope that is bit by bit losing its

strength is not a resource, it’s a liability. Using old rope is
courting disaster.

I was once asked to act as skipper on an old wooden

trawler turned yacht whose owner had bought it from a
couple of used car salesmen. Warning bells! We needed
to moor it on a trawler bed alongside a quay so that we
could paint the hull with anti-fouling when the tide went
out. To do this, you put everything heavy along the side of
the deck facing the quay to make the hull lean against the
wall, and you moor it tight against the quay using every
rope you’ve got. I didn’t want to do it this way but the
owner insisted.

In the middle of the night as the tide was falling, some

vessel exceeding the harbor speed limit created a mighty
wave that pushed us against the wall and then sucked the
hull back outwards. Every rope she was moored with just
parted and she laid herself on her side as the tide went
out. As her full weight came onto some submerged metal,
there was a horrible creaking sound from her hull. As the
tide came back in, she filled up with water, topped with
black oil from the bilges.

That’s what half-rotten rope can do for you. How much is

that worth?

I have full sympathy for people who use synthetic

materials in ropes, nets and sails. That way you can go
home as soon as you’ve unloaded your fish, without
having to spend another hour or two dragging wet cotton
or hemp to places where it can dry. And do it again
tomorrow. And the day after that.
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Originally Answered: What are some disadvantages of cotton? Why
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That depends entirely on what you're using it for.

However, from a VERY general perspective:

Advantages

~ It can easily be woven to different thread counts, so you

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~ It can also be knitted to create jersey fabrics that are

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Nathan Linke
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Originally Answered: What are some disadvantages of cotton? Why
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Well, it depends a it on what it is compared to. Cotton has

decent staple for a natural fiber. Its,nit as good as wool
for flame resistance but better than synthetics. It also has
better hand than wool. It doesn't itch. And it breathes
really well so it is actually one I f the most wearable fibers.
However it's staple is set; a a synthetic can be extruded
at nearly any diameter / length you could require. It also
does not hold moisture like cotton so it can be much
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Chee-Eng, Lim
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Cotton nets would be very heavy when wet as they would

absorb water. They would also be less strong, abrade
fairly easily and rot quickly. Nylon nets are lighter and
stronger.

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